• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    106·
    4 months ago

    I was simply making a joke about the idea that the Russian perspective should be thrown out and we should only listen to Western-Aligned sources because the latter were insisting in the wake of the blast that Russia blew up its own pipeline while Russia said that they obviously weren’t.

    A better example might have been the prison full of Azovites that got rocketed, but I was going for something that I was sure anyone who gave a shit about Ukraine/Russia, even from a superficial culture war perspective, would be familiar with.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      My expectation was that it was evidence of a disagreement with my comments sourced with something other than a swipe at my general intellect or capability, but I see my standards were too high. I never made a statement that the Russian perspective should never be listened to, my statements were very specific to this event.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Whew, with the number of people who sideswipe at .ml I try not to look at things that way, but in this case…

          • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
            3·
            4 months ago

            There are some great instances out there if you want to leave .ml

            Lemm.ee is great. No weird censorship or propaganda like ml

            • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              It’s a weird thing - I gravitated towards .ml because it doesn’t federate with threads (not sure of ee, I will check), had a decent userbase (not sure why I thought that mattered), and I liked the idea that most people on the instance would be to the left of me (again, really doesn’t matter in the end I guess, it just felt more comfortable that way than being amongst what I’d perceive as a bunch of conservatives) - since then I’ve learned of the reputation of .ml, but on the other hand aside from the occasional snark from folks I don’t think it impacts me much, unless there are things I’m missing I don’t realize. (which is possible)

              But I appreciate the suggestion. I’ve been considering whether I want to move based on the above - I suppose I could create an account elsewhere and see how different the Lemmy experience is or isn’t as a result…